Preliminary Efficacy of an mHealth Intervention in West Africa
ConditionPsychosis
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity of Washington
About this trial
The investigators are conducting a pilot feasibility and preliminary efficacy trial of a digital intervention for serious mental illness in West Africa.
Participants will be recruited from a large psychiatric hospital in Ghana and will be asked to use a digital intervention titled G-FOCUS.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Aged 18 years of age or older
Speaks English
Outpatient receiving care at Accra Psychiatric Hospital
Diagnosis of psychosis and are currently symptomatic as assessed by administering the psychosis section of the MINI (Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview)
Disqualifiers
Hearing, vision, or motor impairment that would hamper their ability to participate in data collection
Serious intellectual or developmental disability that would hamper their ability to participate in data collection
Trial design
Design model
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
G-FOCUS
Other interventionA cultural adaption of an evidence-based (USA populations tested) digital tool for serious mental illness
Treatment groups
50 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupGroup A: G-FOCUSExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)
Depressive symptoms.
Time frame
Baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks2
Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7)
Anxiety severity
Time frame
Baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks3
Revised Green et al Paranoid Thoughts Scale
Time frame
Baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeks4
Hamilton Program for Schizophrenia Voices Questionnaire
Time frame
Baseline, 6 weeks, 12 weeksSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov